sheared

1. 1.

   having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers

   “picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor”

   “naked as a sheared sheep”

   Synonymsshorn

   Antonymsunsheared
2. 2.

   (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length

   “a coat of sheared lamb”

   Similarcut

Other forms of sheared

comparative

shearedder·

superlative

sheareddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sheared

What does sheared mean?

sheared means "having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sheared?

sheared has 1 syllable: sheared. In IPA it is /ˈʃɪɹd/.

What is another word for sheared?

Close synonyms include shorn. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of sheared?

The recorded antonyms are unsheared.

Is sheared a common word?

sheared is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.